Well a customer has asked me to build him a high boost engine and keep him updated with the progress, i thought i might as well add it to the projects section so anybody who is interested can follow it as well.

Well the block started off as a unit i had in stock but had some scores down the bore's due to low engine oil, as the block had to be re bored to 86.5mm from the standard 86mm this was no worries and the block was sent away to have the rebore carried out, it came back after having the rebore carried out and the block decked for trueness- (Pictures not showing it decked, had to send the block back, they forgot)





A picture of the block once i took it back and got them to deck it, bloody heavy lugging this around out of the car boot, looks lovely now though-



Then i set about building up the pistons and the rods, fitted all the rings to the pistons then set about fitting the rods, rods are forged and the pistons are low comp units-




Two of the pistons and rods all built up, kind of Pistonheads logo-




Nows the time to fit the nice shiny crank to the block, this has been spun up and checked and had the journals polished and new bearings fitted, the red you can see is a special coating that stops the bare metal from corroded as in this state just damp in the air can make them start to rust-



In she goes to the block (went out and bought an engine stand, for

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Those rods are yumtastic jewellery for anyone with a taste for engineering

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All the parts have just been supplied to me soi cannot tell you anymore than that (i really dont know), very nice bits though as are the pistons, hopefully the owner will be along soon and he can tell you all the answers.

Carl

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C.G.Cars of Leicester, Peugeot/Citroen/Renault specialist Tel: 01162 624498/07799 405184 WWW.CGCARSLEICESTER.CO.UK
36 narborough road south, Leicester LE3 2fn

MOT station now open, tests £35 with a free retest.
Recovery available with a recovery unit, for those not so local jobs

Also offer the loan of a free courtesy car 306 dturbo

is that a lion in the backround of pic 7?

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stevie
09 308 gt140 cc
03 octavia vrs

IF IT AIN'T BROKE, IT AIN'T A GTI6

I wish I could admit to this being mine

Good work as always Carl

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Chris
1999 China Gti6 Supercharged [Fun car] >>Project Thread<<
2000 Bianca 306 Diesel [Work runabout]

Looking great Carl!

Chris, the pistons are Wossners, Rich's custom design to be exact. The rods are made by that company on eBay - advertised as Eagle rods, as well as other names. Thought I'd give them a punt and see how they get on.

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Hit the limiter in 6th gear at 169mph (GPS - TomTom on the German autobahn). Still pulling like a train too. Cheers

- Phase 3 GTi-6 (409hp 'charged weekend toy)
- Phase 2.5 Rallye (daily driver)

R.I.P Pete Sims

very nice work Carl!

I love building up engines from the bare block! I just can't forget when I did the same with a BMW E60 530d engine

It's just nice to see something working borning out from steel.

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They look like the Iasa pistons like I have lol.
I went for the max rods, think they are all the same

dont those rods have a dodgy little end???

Somebody said this to me today, what was actually worng with them as these seem ok and were a very nice and snug fit?

Carl

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C.G.Cars of Leicester, Peugeot/Citroen/Renault specialist Tel: 01162 624498/07799 405184 WWW.CGCARSLEICESTER.CO.UK
36 narborough road south, Leicester LE3 2fn

MOT station now open, tests £35 with a free retest.
Recovery available with a recovery unit, for those not so local jobs

Also offer the loan of a free courtesy car 306 dturbo

someone did have a set rebushed as they were 20mm instead of 22 and the re bush fell apart i think. although i maybe quoting from 2 different threads and 2 completely different sets of rods

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Oh brilliant.

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Hit the limiter in 6th gear at 169mph (GPS - TomTom on the German autobahn). Still pulling like a train too. Cheers

- Phase 3 GTi-6 (409hp 'charged weekend toy)
- Phase 2.5 Rallye (daily driver)

R.I.P Pete Sims

well... they are good paper weights... (but expensive as fook here )

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best 60' : 2.272
best 1/8 ET : 9.375 @ 74.42mph
best 1/4 ET: 14.603 @ 97.047mph

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